In a prospective cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Ma et al found that lower endoscopy colorectal cancer screening in individuals older than age 75 was associated with reduced colorectal cancer incidence and mortality, although no colorectal cancer mortality benefit was observed in those with ...
In the second interim analysis of the phase III CATNON trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Martin J. van den Bent, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that adjuvant temozolomide—but not temozolomide concurrent with radiotherapy—was associated with an overall survival benefit in patients with newly...
In the phase II portion of a Dutch phase II/III trial (CAIRO6) reported in JAMA Surgery, Rovers et al found that the addition of perioperative systemic therapy to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS-HIPEC) was feasible and safe for the treatment of patients with ...
In the Huntsman at Home Real-World Trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Mooney et al found that an oncology hospital-at-home program reduced unplanned health-care utilization and costs vs usual care among patients with cancer discharged from the hospital. Study Details In the study, ...
On March 26, 2021, idecabtagene vicleucel was approved for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma after four or more prior lines of therapy, including an immunomodulatory agent, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody.1,2 Idecabtagene vicleucel is...
In a Dutch study reported in JACC: CardioOncology, Jan M. Leerink, PhD candidate, of Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, and colleagues found that the addition of ejection fraction measurement at the time of first surveillance echocardiogram...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Toni K. Choueiri, MD, of Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues, the phase III CheckMate 9ER trial has shown that the combination of nivolumab and cabozantinib improved progression-free survival and...
On January 15, 2021, the antibody-drug conjugate fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki was approved for treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma who have received a prior trastuzumab-based regimen.1,2 Supporting Efficacy Data...
As reported in The Lancet by Ahmet Sezer, MD, of Başkent University, Adana, Turkey, and colleagues, the phase III EMPOWER-Lung 1 trial has shown improved overall and progression-free survival with cemiplimab-rwlc vs platinum doublet chemotherapy among patients with advanced non–small cell lung...
In a perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine, Julia A. Beaver, MD, and Richard Pazdur, MD, of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), discussed issues surrounding “dangling” accelerated approvals of anti–PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies—ie, approvals for...
In a single-institution phase II/III trial (EMPIRE-1) reported in The Lancet, Ashesh B. Jani, MD, and colleagues found that use of fluciclovine F-18 positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in addition to conventional imaging to guide postprostatectomy salvage radiotherapy was...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Evan Y. Yu, MD, and colleagues, findings in a cohort of the phase II EV-201 study showed a high response rate with the nectin-4–directed antibody-drug conjugate enfortumab vedotin-ejfv in cisplatin-ineligible patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial...
In a prospective longitudinal trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Ali et al found that infants treated for central nervous system (CNS) malignancies had baseline intellectual quotient (IQ) and parent-reported working memory and adaptive functioning worse than normative expectations; ...
As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Andrew H. Wei, MB, BS, PhD, of the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, and colleagues, the phase III QUAZAR AML-001 trial has shown prolonged overall survival with oral azacitidine maintenance therapy vs placebo...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by John Kuruvilla, MD, of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, and colleagues, an interim analysis of the phase III KEYNOTE-204 trial has shown significantly improved progression-free survival with pembrolizumab vs brentuximab vedotin in patients with...
In the Clinic provides overviews of novel oncology agents, addressing indications, mechanisms of action, administration recommendations, safety profiles, and other essential information needed for the appropriate clinical use of these drugs. On February 26, 2021, the peptide-conjugated alkylating...
In the phase III GO2 trial reported in JAMA Oncology, Hall et al found that reduced-intensity oxaliplatin/capecitabine was associated with improved patient experience, reduced toxicity, and noninferior progression-free survival compared with higher-intensity treatment among older and frail patients ...
In a retrospective cohort study reported in The Lancet Oncology, da Silva et al found that better outcomes were achieved with the combination of an anti–PD-1 agent plus ipilimumab vs ipilimumab alone in patients with advanced melanoma who were resistant to prior anti–PD-1 or anti–PD-L1 ...
In a cohort of a phase II trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Assuntina G. Sacco, MD, and colleagues found that the combination of pembrolizumab and cetuximab produced durable responses in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who had received no prior PD-1, ...
In a population-based retrospective cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Cho et al found that Black women with nonmetastatic triple-negative breast cancer were less likely than White women to receive chemotherapy and surgery and were at higher risk of breast cancer mortality. Study Details The...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Lori J. Wirth, MD, and colleagues, a phase II trial of lenvatinib in patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer was stopped for futility after an interim analysis. Study Details In the international multicenter trial, 34 patients received lenvatinib...
In a cohort of the phase II TROPHY-U-01 trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS, and colleagues found that the antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan-hziy produced responses in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma progressing after platinum-based...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Caimi et al, the phase II LOTIS-2 trial has shown that the CD19-directed antibody–alkylating drug conjugate loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl produced durable responses in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The study supported ...
In a cohort of a phase II study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Amod A. Sarnaik, MD, and colleagues found that the tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy lifileucel produced durable responses in patients with metastatic melanoma previously treated with checkpoint inhibitors and BRAF-...
In a single-institution study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Willard et al found that improvements in cognitive and adaptive function were observed between ages 5 and 10 years in many children with retinoblastoma, with scores by age 10 generally being within normal limits. Poorer...
As reported in The Lancet by Menon et al, long-term follow-up in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) showed that reductions in the diagnosis of stage III or IV ovarian cancer with annual multimodal screening compared with no screening did not translate into a mortality...
In a systematic review and meta-analysis reported in JAMA Surgery, Samiei et al found that among breast cancer subtypes, the highest rates of axillary node pathologic complete response following systemic neoadjuvant therapy were in patients with hormone receptor (HR)-negative, HER2-positive disease ...
In the phase II PATRICIA trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Nancy U. Lin, MD, and colleagues found that pertuzumab plus high-dose trastuzumab produced central nervous system (CNS) objective responses and clinical benefit in 68% of patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast...
In the phase II Hovon 143 trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Stege et al found that a regimen of ixazomib, daratumumab, and low-dose dexamethasone (Ixa-Dara-dex) was associated with a high response rate in frail patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, but also a high rate...
In a single-institution retrospective study reported in a research letter in JAMA Oncology, Sinha et al found disparities in electronic health record (EHR) patient portal enrollment according to age, sex, race/ethnicity, and primary language among oncology patients. Study Details The study involved ...
In the phase II DESTINY-CRC01 trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Salvatore Siena, MD, and colleagues found that trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki produced durable responses in patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer. Study Details In the trial, 78 patients from...
The Laparoscopic Approach to Cervical Cancer (LACC) trial, reported in November 2018, showed poorer disease-free and overall survival with minimally invasive vs open radical hysterectomy for early-stage cervical cancer. In a study recently reported in a letter in The New England Journal of...
��As reported in JAMA by Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, MD, MPH, FASCO, and colleagues, the phase III CALGB/SWOG 80702 (Alliance) trial has shown no disease-free survival benefit with the addition of the cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibitor celecoxib to standard adjuvant therapy in patients with stage III...
In a phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Olson et al found that pembrolizumab plus low-dose ipilimumab produced durable responses in patients with advanced melanoma whose disease had progressed on immediate prior PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor therapy. Study Details In the U.S....
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Kim N. Chi, MD, and colleagues, the final overall survival analysis of the phase III TITAN trial showed significant benefit with apalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy vs placebo plus androgen-deprivation therapy in patients with metastatic...
In a single-institution phase II study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Kim A. Reiss, MD, and colleagues found that maintenance treatment with the poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor rucaparib produced responses and was associated with good progression-free survival in...
In a phase II trial (TALENT; GETNE1509) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Jaume Capdevila, MD, and colleagues found that lenvatinib produced durable responses in patients with previously treated advanced grade 1 or 2 gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Study Details In the...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Durno et al in the International Replication Repair Deficiency Consortium (IRRDC), use of an IRRDC surveillance protocol was associated with improved overall survival among patients with constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome (CMMRD)....
As reported in JAMA Oncology by Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and colleagues, the phase III SOPHIA trial has shown significantly prolonged progression-free survival with margetuximab-cmkb plus chemotherapy vs...
On February 22, 2021, cemiplimab-rwlc was approved for first-line treatment of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC; locally advanced who are not candidates for surgical resection or definitive chemoradiation therapy or metastatic) whose tumors have high PD-L1 expression (tumor...
In a study reported in JACC: CardioOncology, Emily S. Lau, MD, of the Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues found that the presence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors was significantly associated with an increased risk of future...
As reported in The Lancet by Javier Cortes, MD, of the International Breast Cancer Center, Quiron Group, Madrid and Barcelona, and colleagues, the second interim analysis of the phase III -KEYNOTE-355 trial has shown that the addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy improved progression-free...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Turan et al found the presence of germline BRCA pathogenic variants was associated with diminished ovarian reserve in young women, particularly in those diagnosed with breast cancer and those with BRCA1 variants. Study Details The individual...
In a health system retrospective study reported in JCO Oncology Practice, Nhean et al found that implementation of an oral chemotherapy management program was associated with reduced rates of any-grade and severe capecitabine toxicity, less frequent toxicity-related emergency department visits and...
In a National Marrow Donor Program–sponsored phase II trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Shaw et al found that a strategy of bone marrow hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) from mismatched unrelated donors using posttransplant cyclophosphamide in patients with hematologic...
As reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Kathleen N. Moore, MD, and colleagues, the phase III IMagyn050/GOG 3015/ENGOT-OV39 trial has shown that the addition of atezolizumab to bevacizumab and chemotherapy did not significantly improve progression-free survival in patients with newly...
In a retrospective cohort study reported in JAMA Oncology, Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, and colleagues quantified cancer screening deficits in the United States associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and identified differences in deficits according to region and socioeconomic status. Study Details The...
In an interview study reported in JCO Oncology Practice, Yael Schenker, MD, MAS, and colleagues identified challenges and measures for improvement cited by oncologists in the safe and effective prescribing of opioids for their patients with cancer-related pain. Study Details The investigators...
In a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Stefan Alig, MD, and colleagues found that a short diagnosis-to-treatment interval in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) was associated with higher baseline tumor burden, reflected in higher pretreatment circulating tumor DNA ...
In an interim analysis of a prospective observational study reported in The Lancet Oncology, Monin et al found that a single dose of the BNT162b2 Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was poorly immunogenic in patients with cancer, with immunogenicity markedly improving at 2 weeks after a second dose...